@Valorum Well, is it a real word, or some gobbledegook they made up for the show? I'm guessing the latter. I don't find it in the online OED, but of course they keep adding new words all the time, so maybe they just haven't got to it yet.
– user14111Jun 19 at 7:10

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@User14111 - It's entirely made up. You can't be proto- comatose any more than you can be para-pregant or semi-dead.
– ValorumJun 19 at 7:44

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@Valorum Yet you can be MOSTLY dead. Mostly dead is still slightly alive. If someone was all dead, there's only one thing you can do.
– UnderverseJun 19 at 12:38